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>> then a life changing moment. >> mitt romney is driving. they are coming around a curve in this small remote town. there are six people in the car. >> he went around the bend and he saw that there was a, at a high rate of speed, another person coming right towards him. >> one of the policemen who had shown up as the first responder, if you will, had actually written in his passport 'il est mort,' which means 'he is dead.' >> mitt woke up in a ward, and he didn't know where he was. and then for a period of time, he didn't have any feeling in one side of his face. >> he had survived, but the wife of the mission president, sitting right next to him, was killed. >> you have to understand the mission president was like the surrogate father there. his wife, the surrogate mother, the mission mother. and she was to many of us mother there. and so it was an awful loss for us that she was killed. >> in the wake of the tragedy mitt's friends say he showed surprising resilience. >> i think part of that is because of our faith. a deep conviction that th
>> then a life changing moment. >> mitt romney is driving. they are coming around a curve in this small remote town. there are six people in the car. >> he went around the bend and he saw that there was a, at a high rate of speed, another person coming right towards him. >> one of the policemen who had shown up as the first responder, if you will, had actually written in his passport 'il est mort,' which means 'he is dead.' >> mitt woke up in a ward, and he didn't...
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she's reporting that a senior romney adviser says that romney is not ready to concede and the associated press, i'm told, has just called virginia for president obama. 4r that's one more state in the count >> can the president go first, judy. >> are they waiting for dick morris to call it? >> he's got a big crowd there. does he just go down and say-- >> ifill: i imagine that's the conversation that's happening right now but none of us has a clue about what that conversation is. i do want to turn the corner. let's assume for a moment what we know holds and what we know is pretty overwhelming, especially with the call of virginia. what does the president do, first. he said immigration is at the top of his list. david, take the fiscal cliff and set it aside and think big picture. what does the president do in the second term? >> let's start with staff. tim geithner is leaving so what kind of treasury secretary do you pick? do you pick somebody like erskin bolls who will send a signal and make liberals unhappy. jack lu, a chief of staff, more of a staffer, put him in that job, go left, or pi
she's reporting that a senior romney adviser says that romney is not ready to concede and the associated press, i'm told, has just called virginia for president obama. 4r that's one more state in the count >> can the president go first, judy. >> are they waiting for dick morris to call it? >> he's got a big crowd there. does he just go down and say-- >> ifill: i imagine that's the conversation that's happening right now but none of us has a clue about what that...
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and so governor romney is making this case. he's basically saying you go with president obama, it's more of the same. >> rose: more years of what happened and are you not happy with what happened. >> exactly. and go with me and i have a plan. in his closing argument he goes through his five, he's even given some of his items, name, the names of the bills that he would enact. and the president is saying i'm not done yet. he says you know, i'm to the going to give up that fight. and then he goes in his closing argue speech he talks about various people. and he said they need a champion. so he is running as the champion for the middle class. and that is both a message to the base but it's also to those undecided voters. >> rose: romney is running as a champion of woman. >> romney is running as a champion of everyone, he says. and of course that is to deal with the lingering problems from that surreptitiously taped 47%. but he is saying now that he is running as the candidate of change. which taking president obama's tag line from
and so governor romney is making this case. he's basically saying you go with president obama, it's more of the same. >> rose: more years of what happened and are you not happy with what happened. >> exactly. and go with me and i have a plan. in his closing argument he goes through his five, he's even given some of his items, name, the names of the bills that he would enact. and the president is saying i'm not done yet. he says you know, i'm to the going to give up that fight. and...
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romney. >> there's also this. my country elected a democratic president and a republican house and a democratic senate. a larger number of republican governors. so it's not a country that's speaking with one voice about what it wants from its leaders. >> which means that the leader is going to have to absorb what that other voice is and compromise is going to have to happen. that's what this country was built on in the first place. compromise, compromise, compromise. >> and all of those presidents understood that. >> and you have to keep your convictions but compromise. >> rose: all right, here it is. >> there he is! >> rose: is he your favorite? >> lincoln? there's no question. i feel guilty saying that because i'm living with theodore roosevelt now and f.d.r., i feel like i'm betraying him but there's nobody like this guy. i miss him. that's why i'm so excited. >> rose: what does your husband think? >> he gets upset with these dead presidents i wake up with in the morning. >> rose: but this is the one. >> abraha
romney. >> there's also this. my country elected a democratic president and a republican house and a democratic senate. a larger number of republican governors. so it's not a country that's speaking with one voice about what it wants from its leaders. >> which means that the leader is going to have to absorb what that other voice is and compromise is going to have to happen. that's what this country was built on in the first place. compromise, compromise, compromise. >> and...
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well, he was -- >> mitt romney comes back? >> he was already president in '68 but the democrats went through the -- there was the john connolly wing nut before he became a republican, there was mcgovern, musky, so i think the -- it there's going to be the equivalent of that now. >> rose: john harris, do you have any sense of what the president -- has he thought about how he wants to ghovrn the second term or is he simply thinking about having an opportunity to govern in the second half. >> it's an opportunity. and the way to look at the mandate is if he wins reelection, the republican mandate to stop him he hopes has been eliminated. probably what he wants to do is take up the unfinished agenda from 2011. that is get back the fiscal cliff, force both sides-- his theory is-- to deal with the so-called grand bargain on fiscal issues. and if that's right-- and i do think mark's analysis is right-- the two central figures to watch on the republican side are paul ryan. i think he is going to have a voice equal to if not superior to
well, he was -- >> mitt romney comes back? >> he was already president in '68 but the democrats went through the -- there was the john connolly wing nut before he became a republican, there was mcgovern, musky, so i think the -- it there's going to be the equivalent of that now. >> rose: john harris, do you have any sense of what the president -- has he thought about how he wants to ghovrn the second term or is he simply thinking about having an opportunity to govern in the...
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they were members of romney's 47%. i mean -- and i suspect he got their vote. but just a bunch of moochers. just a bunch of moochers. >> rose: they voted for him, did they? (laughs) >> but they're -- well, we've conducted a survey three times in my office in three different years and the office has between 16 and probably 21 employees during that period and each time my tax rate was considerably lower-- i'm talking about payroll taxes plus income taxes-- considerably lower than anybody else in the office. these people made various incomes. and the tax law in many cases is not progressive. i think the tax law should be progressive. i think that when people make $15 or $20 million or $200 million and pay a 10% rate i think something should be done about that. >> rose: then people step forward and say well, that's because most of the income comes from dividends which is taxed at a lower rate. >> they would probably say most of it comes from capital gains and it taxed at a lower rate. >> rose: i mean capital gains. >> this just makes sure people who have really hig
they were members of romney's 47%. i mean -- and i suspect he got their vote. but just a bunch of moochers. just a bunch of moochers. >> rose: they voted for him, did they? (laughs) >> but they're -- well, we've conducted a survey three times in my office in three different years and the office has between 16 and probably 21 employees during that period and each time my tax rate was considerably lower-- i'm talking about payroll taxes plus income taxes-- considerably lower than...